Does art serve a purpose? Does it have a function? I would like to believe that it does.

Table of Pencils is the work of sculptor Motohiro Tomii.
“Does art serve a purpose? Does it have a function?” These are the
questions he asked himself as he set about working on this project. In
recent years Tomii has been primarily concerned with the reason we make
things. But instead of perusing an answer through his art – “Will we
ever find the answers if we keep making things? No, definitely not,” he
says – Tomii has quite literally turned the tables on himself, accepting
that art is something incomprehensible. His objective is to understand,
in fact, how much we don’t understand.
The Table of Pencils was created specifically to walk a thin line
between conceptualism and utilitarianism. But leaving the “is it art?”
debate aside, I thinks it’s a fantastic table. How fun would it be to
walk into a super serious meeting around this table?